WindsorDi's photos

Curly maple... *really* curly maple... and knurled antique brass. This week's Saturday wood shop creation

dried coffee grounds are an excellent wood filler... they sand, glue, router, turn and finish just wood, as they are also plant fibre. First step is to pulverize them very fine so they penetrate all the cracks.

thin CA adhesive runs like water... and wicks the grounds down into the depths of the cracks.

Did a run of replacement birds houses... that one one the left has seen better days... but was made with the help of my 4 yr old - 23 years ago!

A number of us have Schlumbergera or Zygocactus as a house plant... and lovingly call it our "Christmas cactus"... but these plants have no understanding of our holiday seasons. Indeed, even putting a calendar with the correct dates prominently circled nearby for the plant to see will not help it... few of them have learned to read. Instead these plants do what our ancestors did - they track the hours of light and darkness. Based on this, they set their bloom cycle accordingly. So no - it's not Christmas on Nov 8th... don't believe the cactus... it's just time to bloom.

clouds of them, mounding around the garden...

the outside "office" gazebo was a stellar place to work from today... though the view was a tad distracting ;-)

glowing in the later afternoon sun, my gazebo sparkled

does a November rose smell as sweet?